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...well miner and part-time bootlegger, "we were poor and harassed, and no one thought I had talent." In 1927, when Lana was six, the family packed up and migrated to San Francisco, where John Turner became a stevedore. One night he got into a crap game, cleaned up, headed home with his winnings. Next morning he was found bludgeoned to death on a street corner, his new hoard gone. The case, says Lana, has never been solved...
Guys and Dolls. Delightful lowdown musical about Broadway's floating crap games and the Damon Runyon babes who need new shoes (TIME...
Dogs & Peacocks. Noble's trials began in 1945; until then, he kicked back 25% of the profits of his crap games for "protection" by Benny Binion, kingpin of Dallas gambling during the war years. When Binion raised the ante to 40%, Noble rebelled. Two "enforcers" went after him in a wild night automobile chase and shot him in the back. About that time, Binion moved to Las Vegas, and Noble retired from gambling to become a rancher and a trader in surplus airplane engines. The feud between them...
...luxury), and their meals-which included large quantities of fresh fruit and vegetables, eggs and ice cream-were elegantly laid out on tables fashioned from packing cases. They played baseball and basketball, swam in the rivers, flocked at night to movies, risked their payday money in poker and crap games. Stones glistening with new whitewash lined driveways at command posts which no longer had to be moved every few days...
...appeared at the courthouse with disconcerting news: her son wasn't dead, he had turned up in East St. Louis. A quick long-distance call confirmed her story. McKinney knew all the men who had "confessed" to killing him; in fact, he had cleaned them out in a crap game the night he left Indianola, and used his profits to buy his bus ticket...